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  • broham launchA rocking Sydney country band with a serious underground heritage, Broham, is back on the boards after a year’s break and will launch their debut album, “Buckle Rash”, with a free show at  The Golden Barley in Enmore on Saturday, February 22. 

    The no-support-three-sets show runs from 8-11pm.

    “Buckle Rash” is 15 tracs on CD and was produced by Golden Guitar nominee Michael Carpenter at The House Studio, and mastered by Rick O’Neill at Turtle Rock.

    Broham is the country vehicle for former Vanilla Chainsaws frontman Simon Chainsaw aka Krysler Broham.

    Krysler and his band used the lay-off to good effect, finishing the long-player, working in new drummer Frank Rosetti and pumping out four video singles in 2024, all of which are viewable here.

    “Buckle Rash” might have a country heart but its soul belongs to the sounds of inner-city Sydney circa the 1980s, and  one of its prime cuts is a rolled gold cover of the X classic “Don’t Cry No Tears” which you view after the READ MORE fold.

  • buckle rashBuckle Rash – Broham (Bad Apple/Dark Roasted)     

    Country Music doesn’t rate much space around these parts but scratch the surface hard enough with a wooden nickel and you’ll find it, lurking like a grinning red-headed uncle in rock and roll’s family tree. The births of the modern versions of the blues and country appear on American timelines that run through the Appalachian backwoods and the mid-western dustbowls of the 1920s.

    The Australian strain of Country Music, on the other hand, is much more bastardised. It rose to prominence in the post-World War II years. In the ‘70s, media maven John Laws hitched his wagon to it, telling a generation: “You’ve never been trucked like this before”.